. Develop the cognitive abilities of children with hearing impairments so that they can understand information, analyze problems and generate solutions in their educational careers and everyday lives.
· Develop the language, speech and listening skills of children with hearing impairments to facilitate conversation, writing and academics.
· Prepare children with hearing impairments for mainstreaming to begin their transition into more challenging academic environments.
· Build upon and refine social skills to enable children with hearing impairments to utilize the above with changing and expanding social groups.
· Support the role of the parents and extended family in the education and socialization of children with hearing impairments so that the family will be a lifelong source of mutual support.
· Implement new technologies in the field of deaf education, devise new strategies for the classroom and provide professional development for educators.
· Expand and develop methods and curricula.
· Inform the public of the efforts expended and results achieved in the education of children with hearing impairments.
· Cooperate with the medical and educational community to mutually advance the remediation and habilitation of children with hearing impairments.
· Develop the language, speech and listening skills of children with hearing impairments to facilitate conversation, writing and academics.
· Prepare children with hearing impairments for mainstreaming to begin their transition into more challenging academic environments.
· Build upon and refine social skills to enable children with hearing impairments to utilize the above with changing and expanding social groups.
· Support the role of the parents and extended family in the education and socialization of children with hearing impairments so that the family will be a lifelong source of mutual support.
· Implement new technologies in the field of deaf education, devise new strategies for the classroom and provide professional development for educators.
· Expand and develop methods and curricula.
· Inform the public of the efforts expended and results achieved in the education of children with hearing impairments.
· Cooperate with the medical and educational community to mutually advance the remediation and habilitation of children with hearing impairments.
